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410 Lots of paint needed!

Challenge group size: M

Quarriers

What's the challenge?

Quarriers is one of Scotland’s largest social care charities. They provide practical care and support for vulnerable children, adults and families who face extremely challenging circumstances. They challenge poverty and inequality of opportunity to bring about positive changes in people’s lives.

Thorn Park is about 7 miles out of Glasgow and provides supported living for people with learning and physical disabilities.

They would love a team to come in and paint their very long perimeter fence! It is in desperate need of staining and protecting from the elements. They would also love the team to provide some colourful garden plant containers to brighten up the garden and the view from the lounge window. They would be happy to provide lunch on the day for all volunteers! 8 to 10 volunteers would be ideal.

483 Painting with love

Challenge group size: S

East Park

What's the challenge?

East Park provides an important service to families across Scotland, delivering excellent residential care and education to children and young people aged 5 to 25 with complex additional support needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attachment Disorder, physical and sensory impairments, learning difficulties and behavioural challenges.

East Park would love a team to decorate one of their residential houses - the living room, bedroom (wardrobe doors), kitchen/dining room and bathroom all need painting. They also need some internal doors washed down to get them gleaming again! They'd also love to see the newly painted walls adorned with some vinyl decals. This will benefit at least 4 children and young people.

All of the children and young people have complex addition support needs - you will be redecorating their home and making it look fresh and welcoming again. Photos >

484 A touch of paint!

Challenge group size: S

East Park

What's the challenge?

East Park provides an important service to families across Scotland, delivering excellent residential care and education to children and young people aged 5 to 25 with complex additional support needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attachment Disorder, physical and sensory impairments, learning difficulties and behavioural challenges.

East Park would love a team to come in to one of their residential houses to paint the perimeter fence which needs treating and protecting from the elements. Their garden path could also really benefit from some weeding. Photos >

The original Erskine Hospital was established in 1916 to care for wounded soldiers and sailors returning from the battlefields of the First World War.

Over 100 years later, the organisation now cares for an average of 1,000 elderly and disabled ex-Service men and women, their spouses and widows/widowers each year through nursing, dementia, palliative and respite care in four Erskine Homes across Scotland’s Central Belt.

Erskine offer care to men and women with a broad range of complex care needs, including those living with a physical disability and those with neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, or cognitive impairments including all forms of dementia. They provide on-site services in all of their homes including physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, recreational and social activities, dentistry, podiatry, hairdressing and more.

Erskine would love a team to visit the Erskine Glasgow Home and spend the morning helping with some painting/gardening tasks and then spend the afternoon taking part in some activites with the residents. For the morning, they need the following help:

Central decking needs rubbing down and re-staining.

All the wooden raised garden beds, planters and some of the garden furniture also needs re-staining.

General tidy of all garden areas used by residents of the home and bark chips also need to be spread throughout the garden.

In the afternoon, the volunteers would spend some time with the residents playing games - perhaps a quiz with some afternoon tea!

All 47 residents, their families and friends, staff and volunteers will benefit from this activity. It will allow Erskine to tidy up the gardens for their use in the summer, when residents and families typically enjoy sitting outside together in good weather, taking part in outdoor activities and holding events such as the Summer Fete and garden party. Photos >

487 Lets all get stuck in!

Challenge group size: F

ENABLE

What's the challenge?

ENABLE Glasgow is a community focused organisation working with adults with a learning disability and their carers and families in Glasgow.

Fortune Works is an innovative social enterprise and training projects for adults with learning disability in Glasgow.

They provide 120 full time placements for adults with a learning disability to be involved in enterprise from gardening to crafting as well as sports and activities including football, dance and ability based exercise.

ENABLE would love some teams to come in and redecorate their premises. They need assistance with:

Painting the doors and skirtings in 195d bottom corridor and emusion walls,

Painting the Arts and Crafts floor,

Painting the Cafe,

Removing approximately 4m of dirt to make way for a storage area for the Garden Centre.

Any 4 of the above completed would be a great help! Up to 125 service users, 30 staff, volunteers and visitors would benefit from the enhanced surroundings - the staff from Fortune Works would like to help the team(s) by also getting involved on the day and encouraging their service users too!

Quarriers is one of Scotland’s largest social care charities. They provide practical care and support for vulnerable children, adults and families who face extremely challenging circumstances. They challenge poverty and inequality of opportunity to bring about positive changes in people’s lives.

Quarriers is one of Scotland’s largest social care charities.They provide practical care and support for vulnerable children, adults and families who face extremely challenging circumstances. They challenge poverty and inequality of opportunity to bring about positive changes in people’s lives.

Thorn Park is about 7 miles out of Glasgow and provides supported living for people with learning and physical disabilities.

They would love a team to come into the home to paint the open lounge/dining room/kitchen. They also have a large hall and 2 rooms including ceilings in desperate need of a lick of paint. In addition there are 13 doors of all shapes and sizes that need painting (both sides). If there is time, they also have a door that needs varnishing along with a small porch area that needs painting.

They would be happy to provide lunch on the day for all volunteers!0 - 12 volunteers would be ideal. Photos >